With only four full days until we start this race, do you have your outline in place? Do you know what you're writing or are you a seat of the pants writer? Fill us in so we can ooo and ahhh together and then look for it on the shelves of Borders so we can say "we knew you when..."
I'm writing a first-person chick-lit "The Blind Leading the Blonde." Loosely based on my experiences in college when I met a friend through a school project. She is blind and runs a farm. Whenever I went over there something would give birth! Eww. I can't wait to let my alter ego take over and tell her story.
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"Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typwriter and open a vein." - Red Smith
www.BeckyTidberg.com - opening my veins.
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oct. 28, 2009 - 10 23
That sounds so awesome! I'm looking forwards to one day getting to read it. Sounds hilarious!
I'm writing a companion book to the (not-so-good) novel I wrote last year. Centered on a young woman with undiscovered spiritual powers, it follows her journey into a land populated by nightmares and demons where she must somehow escape being devoured by these horrific creatures during the "Feast of Souls" and in the process find salvation within herself in order to break the chain of self-destruction that has been strangling her for years.
(Uh...it sounded better in my head...)
Anyways, I've been careful not to plan too much. I don't want to become so wrapped up in making it the "NOVEL-OF-A-LIFETIME" that I can't just let go and write. I find it easier to ignore the passages that bug my perfectionist nature if I'm frantically trying to figure out what comes next.
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oct. 28, 2009 - 11 27
I'm doing a modern/urban fantasy based on Grimm and Andersen fairy tales, where magic is something on par with drugs and the business of it is conducted through mafia families in Chicago. The main character (Little Red Riding Hood with an enchanted Glock), and her cousin (the flustered narrator, and an allegory to both Lewis Carroll's Alice and Nick from The Great Gatsby) get ahold of some magic...thing (these details will work themselves out as I write. I hope)...and head into the depths of the Wisconsin north woods to get it safely into the hands of Red's grandmother. Various other fairy tale figures make appearances as assassins and allies, including references to Carroll's works and The Wizard of Oz.
Mostly just a bit of fun. I'm hoping to one day turn it into a graphic novel, but I'll need to find myself a talented artist first, as I cannot draw a straight line with a ruler. :(
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oct. 28, 2009 - 11 40
I love this idea, especially of converting it to a graphic novel. I teach my students about graphic novels at school here and I demo how to create one. Once again, great idea.
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oct. 28, 2009 - 15 28
I still haven't decided what I'm writing. I have so many ideas for novels floating in my head!
I'd work on the sequel to my first novel, but it's already started and I think that's against the rules.
----------Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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oct. 30, 2009 - 06 33
I'm going to be doing a science fiction story, crew of a science vessel has to stop one side in a galactic cold war from building what's basically the ultimate superweapon in order to prevent the war from going hot.
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oct. 31, 2009 - 06 58
I sort of have an outline planned, because I want to take up the offer by CreateSpace. This way it might not take as long to edit, get new ideas and such.
Anywho, the story is about a girl born with wings. -laughs- Thats all I'm going to tell so you have to read it someday when it gets in Borders.
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oct. 31, 2009 - 07 09
I'm going to be starting a new project this year centered around two kids who get stuck back in time. I've got a complete outline to work from, so I'm pretty excited for this new venture. I just am hoping that my creativity can keep up with the timeline, but I'm sure that I'll be right in there, forging ahead in literary abandon.
----------Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
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oct. 31, 2009 - 11 27
I'm a seat of the pants writer. I never outline. That said, I'm torn between three options. All to do with Nanotechnology. I'm not normally a sci-fi writer but this has been gnawing at me for years: What if reincarnation is real? If your body is frozen cryonically at death and you are reincarnate, then, years later your previous frozen body is reanimated, what happens to your soul??? That's my "what if" question. That's what I'm thinking of writing. It should be interesting to see what happens, eh?
Good luck to everyone!
Rea
----------I can do it! I can do it!
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nov. 1, 2009 - 09 42
Until about a week ago, I was going to do some kind of sarcastic thing with vampires...but then I started world building, and I realized that this new world was a lot more interesting than vampires. So I'm writing a garbage fantasy (that's my technical term for story set in a medieval-esque world of magic where someone has to go on a quest to save the world). I have ten main characters who each have special powers, and they all have their own adventures before they eventually all come together and have to save the world from...something. I'm not sure what yet. But that's what november is for.
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nov. 1, 2009 - 12 32
I'm writing something loosely based on my own life as a super-shy shut-in. It's basically about a shut-in who gets all the necessities of life online, until there's some sort of computer problem (haven't decided yet) and he has to get out of his comfort zone. I haven't thought too much on it. I don't really know how the whole writing thing works. I just start writing and see where it takes me. That's the gist of it, though.
Oh yeah, and I'm writing a graphic novel also based on my life, about a girl with an art degree that works retail. Pretty cynical stuff. That's not part of this, just thought I'd toss it out there. I saw there was mention of graphic novels up top a little ways. I've never written one before. Sounds like fun, though.
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nov. 2, 2009 - 07 49
Hello! First time poster here and first time NaNoWriMo participant.
Your ideas are all very interesting.
Mine's about a strange rock musician aiming to create the most epic, progressive album he can possibly create. Occasionally psychedelic, progressively dark, very psychoanalytical, and makes a point to follow Joseph Campbell's idea about the monomyth.
It's called Prog.
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nov. 2, 2009 - 08 34
I'm writing a fantasy novel about a fairy who starts out living in a utopian society where she never wants for anything. Then, a banished fairy bent on vengeance tears off her wings and leaves her to live as a human in the dirty and corrupt capitol of the human world. It largely focuses on her gradual acceptance of humanity.
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nov. 4, 2009 - 18 47
I am new, and didn't know about it really until yesterday. I have started a story.
I think it will grow into a romance between a young high school artist and a college-aged woman who thought she was asexual all her life.